by Nadim Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, March 11, 2017 Savar: Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam said ahead of the national election, militant activities were increasing. “The government has decided to stringently repress militant activity throughout the country, particularly since militants have become more active in recent days,” said Qamrul. Speaking at a prize giving ceremony at Savar’s Mirpur Mafid-E-Aam School and College on Saturday, the minister urged the students to be more cautious as a…
Posts published in March 2017
By Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, March 11, 2017 Aiming at making all Islamic parties run for the next general election independently, Islami Oikya Jote, a religion-based political party, is working so that the parties do not contest the polls under any alliance, said party sources. The IOJ wants its like-minded Islamic parties to work together for Islam and the country’s interest, but is not interested to make any alliance with large political parties including…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, March 10th, 2017. GILGIT: Families affected by upgrades to the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan have given the government a month’s time to pay back their outstanding dues. “We will block traffic on the highway from April 10 onwards,” said a group of affected people while addressing a news conference in Gilgit. The press conference was addressed by Jehangir Khan, Numberdar Shifa, Haji Ibrahim and Kasheer who were members…
By Mohammad Jamil Khan and Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, Mar 10, 2017 Around 82 percent of the arrested militant suspects in Bangladesh were radicalised through social media platforms, a police study has found. “Conducting a research among the 780 militants arrested since 2010, we found that around 82 percent of them became radicalised from propaganda materials on social media platforms,” Mohammad Moniruzzaman, assistant inspector general (confidential) of police headquarters, told The Daily Star…
by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 10, 2017 Ahmed Azwad Imtiaz Talukder alias Omi, one of the two people detained for attacking police in Comilla, had stayed at a militant hideout in Narayanganj, where Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury was living as well, said police. Omi had left the hideout just seven days before the August 27 operation that left Tamim and two other militants dead. Even, he also knew the five militants…
By Shilajit Kar Bhowmik & Rafiqul Islam in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 10, 2017 Feni: Lance Nayek Nowsher Ali of Bangladesh Ansar was killed when a clash broke out during an anti-narcotics drive by a law enforcement team in a border area of Fulgazi upazila around 11pm on Wednesday. Indian authorities on the other hand are saying the incident was an attack on Indian villagers by intruders from Bangladesh. Executive Magistrate Sohel Rana, who led the…
by Maqbool Malik in The Nation, March 10th, 2017 ISLAMABAD – Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani Thursday warned that addition of Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in the Council of Common Interest (CCI) could undermine Pakistan’s international position on Kashmir dispute. Rabbani made these observations in response to a request to the Senate and Chairman for guidance by Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada how to go about bringing AJK and…
By Tarek Mahmud Mohiuddin Molla &FM Mizanur Rahaman in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 9, 2017 Comilla/Chittagong: This week’s militant attacks in Gazipur and Comilla and on Wednesday’s in Chittagong reveal that the new outfit of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is reforming outside Dhaka, counter-terrorism sources have said. Law enforcement agencies say since the Gulshan attack they have broken the outfit’s high command by arresting most of the leaders and active organisers. Many militants including…
By Monalisa Chaudhuri in The Telegraph, Mar 9, 2017 Kolkata: A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh leader wanted in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan was arrested from a central Calcutta hideout earlier this week. Mohammad Idris, one of the “most wanted” suspects in the July 1 café attack in which 20 people were killed, was hiding in the Burrabazar area, according to information passed on by a special cell of Delhi police to…
Police yesterday seized a huge cache of grenades and explosive materials from the Chittagong house of two militant suspects, arrested over Tuesday’s attack on a police checkpoint in Comilla. On information gleaned from the two — Mahmud Hasan, 24, and Jasim, 19 — law enforcers raided the house on the ground floor of a two-storey building at Mirsharai municipality around 11:00pm on Tuesday. The drive continued overnight and ended around 4:30pm yesterday, our Chittagong office…
By Probir Kumar Sarker in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 9, 2017 The CIA recently made available online several thousand documents on Bangladesh’s pre- and post-independence events. Today Dhaka Tribune publishes the CIA’s observations on the security forces of an independent Bangladesh, the third of a series of exclusive stories. The strength of the army posted in East Pakistan in early 1971 was dismal – largely disorganised and badly equipped, but the mindset of most of the…